TubeFocus - Youtube UnDistract

About

- Stay focused on what you want to watch. TubeFocus removes distracting elements across YouTube with fine-grained controls and a built-in Focus Timer.

- Features:
  - Hide home page recommendations
  - Hide left sidebar (guide/mini-guide)
  - Hide Shorts shelves
  - Hide Trending page contents
  - Hide comments
  - Hide suggested videos sidebar
  - Hide end-screen recommendations
  - Minimal watch UI (hide title, channel bar, description, actions)

- Focus Timer:
  - One click to hide all distractions for 15–60 minutes
  - Live countdown in the popup
  - Automatically restores when time ends

- Shorts control:
  - Optionally redirect Shorts to the regular watch player

- Clean, fast, reliable:
  - Dynamic CSS injection for performance
  - Works with light and dark themes
  - Preferences sync across devices (Chrome sign-in)

- Privacy:
  - No data collection, tracking, or analytics
  - Settings stored via Chrome’s sync storage

- Permissions:
  - “Storage” to save preferences
  - Access to youtube.com to apply visual changes you choose

- Note:
  - Not affiliated with YouTube or Google

- What’s new (v6.3):
  - Material Design 3-inspired popup redesign
  - Focus Timer improvements and live countdown
  - Optional Shorts → watch page redirect
  - More precise hiding rules and minor fixes